Azhar Ramadan

Azhar Ramadan (14 June 1940-11 April 1983) was a leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO).

Biography
Azhar Ramadan was born on 14 June 1940 in Nablus, Mandatory Palestine, in the United Kingdom to a Palestinian Sunni Muslim family. Ramadan's family fled to the Bureij refugee camp in the Gaza Strip in 1940 during the Israeli War of Independence, and Ramadan grew up in a family that had to rely on foreign aid for food. Ramadan became a member of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) when it was founded, and Ramadan specialized in constructing improvised explosive devices (IEDs). Ramadan hid out in Lebanon in 1973 after Israel invaded the Syrian-held Golan Heights, where he hid, during the Yom Kippur War. Ramadan lived in West Beirut in an apartment building, and in 1983 he was killed when an Israeli artillery strike destroyed his apartment.